Digestive
The main function of the digestive system
What is to break down food?
The main function of the cardiovascular system
What is the transport of oxygen and nutrients throughout the body?
Main function of the respiratory system
What is the exchange of gases?
The three types of muscles
What is skeletal, cardiac, and smooth?
The system that controls and coordinates responses of the body
What is the nervous system?
Digestion begins here
What is the mouth?
Oxygen is transported by this cell in the blood.
What is red blood cell?
The scientific word for windpipe.
What is the trachea?
The two types of muscle that are involuntary (automatic).
What is cardiac and smooth?
The organs that filter wastes from our blood.
What is the kidneys?
Stool is formed in this organ
What is the large intestine?
Blood vessels that flow towards the heart
What is veins?
Where the exchange of gases occurs in the lungs.
What is alveoli?
Attaches muscle to bone
What is tendon?
What is hormones?
The wave-like muscle contractions of the digestive tract
What is peristalsis?
These prevent backflow of blood in the heart
What is valves?
This muscle contracts and expands to push air out of the lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
The type of muscle found in the digestive tract
What is smooth muscle?
Part of the neuron that sends out the transmitting signal
What is the axon terminal?
Two examples of how food is chemically digested in the body
What is saliva and stomach acid?
The strongest chamber in the heart
What is left ventricle?
During an asthma attack, a lack of this gas may be life-threatening.
What is oxygen?
The scientific term for a muscle shortening in length.
What is contracting/contraction?
Hormone that regulates our blood sugar
What is insulin?